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M. S. BRIGGS.

FEEDER POR STOVES.

No. 364,795. 'Patented-June 14, 1887.'

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UNITED STATES Aram einen@ MELBURN S. BRIGGS, OF OXFORD, NEBRASKA.

FEEDER FOR s`TovEs.

SPECIFICATION forming partof Letters Patent No. 364,795, dated June 14, 1887.

Application filed January 5, 1887. Serial No. 323,498. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, MELBURN S. BRIeGs, ofOxford, iu the county of Furnas and State of Nebraska, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Feeders for Stoves, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description. v

This invention consists in a magazine or self-feeder for cooking and other stoves,of novel construction, the same including a fuel-box arranged outside of the stove and having combi ned with it au upper external smoke and air chamber adapted to pass the fuel into said box, and a pipe for carrying off any escaping smoke into the main smoke pipe or flue of the stove, substantially as hereinafter described, and pointed out in the claim.

The feeder, which may be of any desired shape, is mainly designed to be usedy .in connection with t-hat class of cookingfstoves which are provided with an opening in front for putting in the fuel. This opening is usually closed by a door, and instead of saiddoor I apply the magazine or feeder, that may be of any desired shape at its mouth to fit said opening in stoves now in use, or to adaptit to stoves specially constructed at such opening for support and attachment of the feeder. Stoves of this description are in common use in certain sections of the country and in which-the fuel is of arapidlycombustible character-such as corn, corn-cobs, sunflower-stalks, hay, straw, and soft coal; and while my invention is not restricted to the use of any particular kind of fuel, its advantages are more conspicuous in connection with such quick-burning fuel, that when supplied in the ordinary way, through the openingin front of the fire-place, requires almost constant attention to keep up the vsupply, produes great irregularity of temperature, and is very wasteful, owing to the point atwhich combustion takes place.

My invention obviates these and other defects, and is largely economical, convenient, and advantageous, as will hereinafter be explained.

Figure 1 represents a mainly vertical section of a cooking-stove of the description above referred to with my inventionv applied, and Fig. 2 is a View in perspective, upon a larger scale, of the feeder detached.

is indicated at f, and is located, as usual, in the upper portion of the fire-place in front.

E is the fuel-box of the feeder, of any suitable dimensions,and arranged to standup from the stove in front, with its mouth-or lower end contracted and adapted to conform to the opening j", and its body constructed to facilitate the feed of the fuel down it by gravity into the fire-place through the upper front opening f. A

G is an air and smoke chamber upon the top of the fuel-box E and in communication therewith by an aperture closed by a lid, g, also provided with a door, 7L, for putting in the fuel when supplying .the fuel-box E after removing the lid g for the purpose. This air and smoke chamber is provided ou its top with an outlet duct or pipe, i, that leads from it to the smoke-pipe D of the stove above the damper e. y

In starting the'stove thecorn-,cobs or other fuel are first fed down through the fuel-box E into the fire-place A till this is filled, and the feeding then continued until the fuel-b0x E is full. The lids or doors g h of the feeder are then closed and combustion takes place in the iireplace of the stove and at the mouthv of the feeder; but the draft is from below and backward, and the re does not work up into the feeder, which simply serves to supply fuel that settles down from above to take the place of the consumed fuel. closed, the passage of smoke from the fuel-box Eis only accidental, but still will occur to a slight extent around orfpast said lid whenthe damper e in the stove-pipe has been too far closed, or the griddles in the top of the stove removed, and this is very objectionable in a room. The upper chamber, G, however, and

its connection by the duct or pipe i with the main stovepipe, which provides for the passage of such escaping smoke to the chimney or main stove-pipe, does away with r this ob` jeetion.

By means of this feeder the fire is replerrs When the lid g is ished with i nel without constant watching, and a much 'more regular temperature is or may be maintained. linie and labor are-economized in charging the stove and a more effective 5 heat is obtained; also, greater economy oi' inel, as practically combustion takes place in the stove, or is more active near and at the mouth ofthe fuel-box or i'ront part oi' the lireplace instead oi' at its back, likewise, a better io ventilation is secured by opening a damper, 7:, in the door h oi' the chamber G, thereby creating a draft. y

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by 15 Letters Patent, is

The combination, with the cookingstove having the usual feed-opening, f, at its iront, the' pipe D, and the damper ein the lower end of the pipe, oi' the magazine E, registering at its lower end with4 the feed-opening f, and 2o provided at its upper end with a chamber, G,

lhaving a lid, g, iitting an opening in its bottom and door l1, and the pipe 1T, leading from the chamber G to the stovcpipe above its damper c, substantially as set i'orth.

MELBURN S. BRTGGS.

Vitnesses:

W. B. Kisnn, J. O. GRIGGS. 

